In a bit of a bizarre, book-ending set of circumstances to all of this, V-Tuber Gawr Gura has announced her upcoming graduation on May 1st, 2025 within the Japanese Time Zone.While it may be somewhat of a bit of bad form to be revisiting a previous post that was made on a past topic, in a much more recently uploaded video, Youtuber Taledo succinctly explains the whole Dodgers-Hololive 2024 collaboration in much more extensive detail in his video presentation, When VTubers Took Over Baseball | The Hololive x Dodgers Story. ;)
Around the seventh inning against the Milwaukee Brewers, the Los Angeles Dodgers were down by a score of 4 to the Brewer's 5 (indeed, the earlier game season supposedly had the Dodgers on a losing streak), when Gawr Gura came out to sing her rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame". That's when things turned around for the Dodgers as they would come out victorious with a final winning score of 8 to 5 (supposedly that very number 85 would hold some significance in reference to Hololive's very own CEO, Yagoo).Eventually, the Los Angeles Dodgers would go on to win the 2024 World Series several months later; prompting some Dodger's Fans into believing that the Half-Shark V-Tuber is now considered something of a 'Good-Luck Charm' for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
And it looks like there'll be yet another collaboration this year between Hololive and the Los Angeles Dodgers that'll be taking place during July 5, 2025.
The three Hololive members that will be appearing for this new collaboration includes: Koseki Bijou, IRyS, and Ninomae Ina’nis.
PS. As a special bonus, some brief highlights about the upcoming collab can be found here:
Biboo, Ina and IRyS Do Squats IRL and Chat Goes SPEED 【HololiveEN】.
Biboo Show Her Home Run Demonstrate, But Ended Up Falling【Hololive】.
The Nickname That Broke IRyS, Biboo & Ina...
Posted without comment.
And speaking of a lucky, former Hololive shark-girl that appeared in a past collab with the Dodgers...
Sameko Saba DEBUT Date OFFICIALLY Announced! (Gawr Gura Indie Debut).
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Spider-Man: Blue is a comic book limited series written by Jeph Loeb and illustrated by Tim Sale. It ran for a total of six issues and has been reprinted in trade paperback form. Loeb and Sale had also worked on the limited series: Daredevil: Yellow, Hulk: Gray and Captain America: White which also chronicle their respective Marvel Comics characters in their formative years.
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Diablo is an action role-playing video game developed by Blizzard North and released by Blizzard Entertainment in January 1997 and is the first installment in the video game series of the same name.
Set in the fictional Kingdom of Khanduras in the mortal realm, the player controls a lone hero battling to rid the world of Diablo, the Lord of Terror. Beneath the town of Tristram, the player journeys through sixteen randomly generated dungeon levels, ultimately entering Hell in order to face Diablo.
An expansion pack, Diablo: Hellfire, was released in November 1997 by Synergistic Software. In 1998, Electronic Arts released Diablo for the PlayStation. This version, developed by Climax Studios, featured direct control of the main character's direction using the PlayStation controller, as opposed to point-and-click movement. A Sega Saturn version was considered by Electronic Arts but never released. Diablo has been considered one of the greatest games of all time for its randomized assignment of quests and enemies on each playthrough, online multiplayer, and graphics. The game's success led to several sequels: Diablo II in 2000, Diablo III in 2012, Diablo Immortal in 2022 and Diablo IV in 2023.
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Métal Hurlant is a French comics anthology of science fiction and horror comics stories. Originally created in 1974, the anthology ceased publication in 1987 but was revived between 2002 and 2004 in multilingual editions, and then again in 2020.
Emphasizing complex graphics, cinematic imagery and surreal storylines, Métal Hurlant was highly influential throughout the world as one of the first mature expressions of "adult" comic book making. Apart from comics, the original Métal Hurlant contained articles about science fiction books and movies, as well as music and videogame reviews.
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The Sandman (Wesley Bernard "Wes" Dodds) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The first of several DC characters to bear the name Sandman, he was created by writer Gardner Fox and artist Allen Bert Christman. Attired in a green business suit, fedora, and World War I gas mask, the Sandman used a gun emitting a sleeping gas to sedate criminals. He was originally one of the "mystery men" to appear in comic books and other types of adventure fiction in the 1930s, but later was outfitted with a unitard/cowl costume and developed into a proper superhero, acquiring a sidekick, Sandy, and founding the Justice Society of America (JSA).
Like most DC Golden Age superheroes, the Sandman fell into obscurity in the 1940s and eventually other DC characters took his name. During the 1990s, when writer Neil Gaiman's Sandman (featuring Morpheus, the anthropomorphic embodiment of dreams) was popular, DC revived Dodds in Sandman Mystery Theatre, a pulp/noir series set in the 1930s. Wizard Magazine ranked Wesley Dodds among the Top 200 Comic Book Characters of All Time, and he is the oldest superhero in terms of continuity to appear on the list.
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The Invitation is a 2022 American horror thriller film directed by Jessica M. Thompson and written by Blair Butler. It stars Nathalie Emmanuel and Thomas Doherty. Inspired by the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, it follows a woman who, after her mother's death, meets long-lost family members and discovers the dark secrets they carry.
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Raspberry starts off with large leaves and no berries in its first year, then grows berries and much smaller leaves in year two.
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The Invitation is a 2022 American horror thriller film directed by Jessica M. Thompson and written by Blair Butler. It stars Nathalie Emmanuel and Thomas Doherty. Inspired by the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, it follows a woman who, after her mother's death, meets long-lost family members and discovers the dark secrets they carry.If you hadn't said it was inspired by Dracula I would have guessed it was stealing the plot of Tanith Lee's Blood Opera trilogy.
Both could be true. You never know with Hollywood these days.
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Troll is a 2022 Norwegian epic monster film directed by Roar Uthaug. Starring Ine Marie Wilmann, Kim Falck, Mads Sjøgård Pettersen, and Gard B. Eidsvold, it follows a ragtag group of people who must come together to stop an ancient troll that was awakened in a Norwegian mountain and prevent it from wreaking havoc.
Director Uthaug met with Motion Blur executives when his film Tomb Raider was near completion to discuss creating a film. He decided to utilize a Norwegian folklore-inspired idea that he had been pondering for over 20 years.The concept art of the titular monster attacking Oslo was released in March 2021. Principal photography began in August 2021 and wrapped in November, with location shooting taking place in Askim, Dovre, Indre Østfold, Lom, Øyer, Rena, and Ulsteinvik.
Troll was released by Netflix on 1 December 2022, to generally positive reviews from critics. A sequel is in development.
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Bill Istvan Günther Skarsgård (born 9 August 1990) is a Swedish actor. He is known for portraying Pennywise in the horror films It (2017) and It Chapter Two (2019). Other horror appearances were in the series Hemlock Grove (2013–2015) and Castle Rock (2018–2019) and the films Barbarian (2022) and Nosferatu (2024).
Skarsgård has also appeared in the comedy Simple Simon (2010), the drama Nine Days (2020), and the action films The Divergent Series: Allegiant (2016), Atomic Blonde (2017), and John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023).
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The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion is a 2018 South Korean science fiction action horror film written and directed by Park Hoon-jung. With Kim Da-mi in the lead role as an escaped superhuman prodigy, it explores the consequences of irresponsible transhumanist experimentation. A sequel, The Witch: Part 2. The Other One, was released on 15 June 2022.
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Goldbach's conjecture, that every even number ≥ 4 is the sum of two prime numbers, is one of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics. To date, all even numbers up to 4,000,000,000,000,000,000 (4*10^18) have been tested, and no counterexample has been found, but the conjecture remains unproven.
It has been proven that every odd number ≥ 7 is the sum of three prime numbers, which means that every even number ≥ 10 is the sum of four prime numbers (and 8 = 2+2+2+2).
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What was the average population density in the thirteen colonies in 1776? What's the average population density in the US today? Just curious how they'd compare.
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Vampire Hunter D is a 1985 Japanese original video animation (OVA) film produced by Ashi Productions, in association with Epic/Sony Records, CBS/Sony Group, and Movic. The screenplay is based on the first in the long-running series of light novels written by Hideyuki Kikuchi.
The film is set in the year 12,090 AD, in a post-nuclear holocaust world where a young woman hires a mysterious half-vampire, half-human vampire hunter to protect her from a powerful vampire lord.
Something Old:
And it looks like there'll be yet another collaboration this year between Hololive and the Los Angeles Dodgers that'll be taking place during July 5, 2025.
And the 2025 July 5th Hololive/Dodgers Collab has finally come to a rousing conclusion. While the Dodgers didn't win that day against the Houston Astros (with a final loss/score of 4 to 6), the festivities more than made up for things. ;)
The Ultimate LA Dodgers x Hololive experience 2025 【ドジャース 】.
hololive Members Sing at Dodgers Game.
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'This is the end'?: Stolen bust of Jim Morrison finally found • FRANCE 24 English.
Heh, didn't even know that it was missing in the first place. ;P
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The Cajun Navy are informal ad hoc volunteer groups comprising private boat owners who assist in search and rescue efforts in the United States as well as offer disaster relief assistance. These groups were formed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and reactivated in the aftermaths of the 2016 Louisiana floods, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, the 2018 Hidalgo County flood, Hurricane Florence, Tropical Storm Gordon, Hurricane Michael, Hurricane Laura, Hurricane Ida, Hurricane Ian, and Hurricane Helene They are credited with rescuing thousands of citizens during those disasters.
These groups draw their name from the region's Cajun people, a significant number of whom are private boat owners and skilled boat pilots. Their boats consist of a number of types, but are typically small vessels such as bass boats, jon boats, air boats, and other small, shallow-draft craft easily transported to flooded areas.
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Snow load is the pressure or force put on a building’s roof caused by a pile-up of snow or ice.
Since snow and ice melt when temperatures climb above 32 degrees, snow load is a temporary type of load — or a “live load” (versus a permanent “dead load,” like beams and drywall).
The term is used in the construction industry to describe the amount of pressure a roof can hold without any damage. We measure a roof’s snow load in pounds per square foot (or PSF).
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A flange rating, also known as flange class, is a measure of how much pressure and temperature a flange can safely withstand. It's a key factor in ensuring the integrity and reliability of piping systems, and is typically designated by a number, like Class 150, Class 300, etc. Higher numbers indicate a higher pressure and temperature rating, meaning the flange is stronger and can handle more demanding conditions.
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The Joker: Devil's Advocate is an American one-shot superhero comic book written by Chuck Dixon and drawn by Graham Nolan, published by DC Comics in 1996. Several recurring characters of the Batman family appear in the story, such as Robin, James Gordon, Barbara Gordon, and Alfred Pennyworth.
The post office puts out a new set of postage stamps commemorating famous comedians, but some of the sets have Joker Venom on the back; people who lick them die grinning. The Joker, who's angry about not having his own stamp, takes hostages at the post office, and is captured by Batman. The DA decides to try Joker for murder, and he's found guilty and sentenced to death. Batman, however, believes that Joker wasn't the one who poisoned the stamps, and he sets out to find the real killer, even though doing so would save the Joker's life.
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Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in AD 922 (later republished as The 13th Warrior to correspond with the film adaptation of the novel) is a 1976 novel by Michael Crichton, the fourth novel under his own name and his 14th overall. The story is about a 10th-century Muslim Arab who travels with a group of Vikings to their settlement.
Crichton explains in an appendix that the book was based on two sources. The first three chapters are a retelling of Ahmad ibn Fadlan's personal account of his actual journey north and his experiences with and observations of Varangians. The remainder is a retelling of Beowulf.
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Vladimír Kulich (born 14 July 1956) is a Czech-Canadian actor.
He is known for his roles as Buliwyf in the film The 13th Warrior, Tiberius in the film Ironclad, Erik in the television series Vikings, as well as the voice of Ulfric Stormcloak in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and as The Beast in the television series Angel. In 1995 he appeared as Olafsson in the X-Files episode "Død Kalm."
While living in Montreal, Quebec, Canada as a young adult, he was a professional ice hockey player. He has often volunteered in celebrity charity games including skating with the Los Angeles Kings Alumni Association.
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Vladimír Kulich (born 14 July 1956) is a Czech-Canadian actor.
He is known for his roles as Buliwyf in the film The 13th Warrior,
That portrayal made me want to see him play Thor, bigtime! (Obviously by the time the Thor movie actually did come out, 12 years later, he was perhaps a bit too long in the tooth for the role...)
Similarly, the movie Strange Days (1995) made me want to see Angela Bassett as Storm, who was played instead by Halle Berry in 2000's X-Men.
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The Union Pacific Railroad is a Class I freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over 32,200 miles (51,800 km) routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Pacific is the second largest railroad in the United States after BNSF, with which it shares a duopoly on transcontinental freight rail lines in the Western, Midwestern and West South Central United States.
Founded in 1862, the original Union Pacific Rail Road was part of the first transcontinental railroad project, later known as the Overland Route. Over the next century, UP absorbed the Missouri Pacific Railroad, the Western Pacific Railroad, the Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad. In 1995, the Union Pacific merged with Chicago and North Western Transportation Company, completing its reach into the Upper Midwest. In 1996, the company merged with Southern Pacific Transportation Company, itself a giant system that was absorbed by the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad. The Union Pacific Railroad Company is the principal operating company of Union Pacific Corporation, which are both headquartered at the Union Pacific Center, in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Canadian Pacific Kansas City Limited, doing business as CPKC (known as Canadian Pacific Railway Limited until 2023), is a Canadian railway holding company. Through its primary operating railroad subsidiaries, Canadian Pacific Railway (CP) and Kansas City Southern Railway (KCS), it operates about 32,000 kilometres (20,000 mi) of rail in Canada, Mexico, and the United States, and is the only single-line rail corporation ever to connect the three countries. CPKC is headquartered in Calgary and led by President and CEO Keith Creel.
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Mortal Kombat is a 2021 American martial arts fantasy film co-produced and directed by Simon McQuoid, in his directorial debut, from a screenplay by Greg Russo and Dave Callaham, based on the video-game series created by Ed Boon and John Tobias. The film serves as a reboot of the Mortal Kombat film series and is the third installment in the franchise. It stars Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Tadanobu Asano, Mehcad Brooks, Ludi Lin, Chin Han, Max Huang, Joe Taslim, and Hiroyuki Sanada. The film follows Cole Young, a washed-up mixed martial arts fighter who is unaware of his hidden lineage or why the assassin Sub-Zero is hunting him down. Concerned for the safety of his family, he seeks out a clique of fighters that were chosen to defend Earthrealm against Outworld.
Following the critical and commercial failure of Mortal Kombat Annihilation (1997), a third Mortal Kombat film languished in development hell for a period of nearly two decades. In late 2010, Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema began developing a new film, with Kevin Tancharoen serving as director from a script written by Oren Uziel in the wake of their short film Mortal Kombat: Rebirth (2010). James Wan was announced as a producer in August 2015 and McQuoid was hired as director in November 2016. Production took place at Adelaide Studios in Adelaide and at other locations in South Australia. Principal photography occurred from September to December 2019.
Mortal Kombat was released internationally on April 8, 2021, and in the United States on April 23, simultaneously in theaters in Dolby Cinema, IMAX, and 4DX formats and on the streaming service HBO Max. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the performances, production values, action sequences, and faithfulness to the source material as compared to the previous films but criticized its screenplay and exposition. The film grossed over $84 million against a $55 million production budget and became HBO Max's most successful film launch to date.
A sequel, Mortal Kombat II, is scheduled to be released on October 24, 2025, with Jeremy Slater set to write the screenplay and McQuoid returning as director.
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Justice League Unlimited, Season 1, Episode 2, For the Man Who Has Everything, was based off the story of the same name from Superman (vol 1) Annual #11. Alan Moore, the writer of the story which this episode is based on, notoriously despises and discourages film and television adaptations of his works. However, according to Bruce Timm and Dwayne McDuffie, Moore confided that he was in fact pleased with the result of this episode. Notably, he allowed himself to be credited in it, which is rare. This is one of only two adaptations of Moore's work that Moore himself approved of the other being the YouTube parody Saturday Morning Watchmen (2009).
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On 20 January 1982, Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat that he thought was rubber while performing at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Des Moines, Iowa. According to a 2004 Rolling Stone article, the bat was alive at the time; however, 17-year-old Mark Neal, who threw it onto the stage, said it was brought to the show dead. According to Osbourne in the booklet to the 2002 edition of Diary of a Madman, the bat was not only alive but managed to bite him, resulting in Osbourne being vaccinated against rabies. On 20 January 2019, Osbourne commemorated the 37th anniversary of the bat incident by offering an "Ozzy Plush Bat" toy "with detachable head" for sale on his personal web-store. The site claimed the first batch of toys sold out within hours.
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On 20 January 1982, Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat that he thought was rubber while performing at the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Des Moines, Iowa. According to a 2004 Rolling Stone article, the bat was alive at the time; however, 17-year-old Mark Neal, who threw it onto the stage, said it was brought to the show dead. According to Osbourne in the booklet to the 2002 edition of Diary of a Madman, the bat was not only alive but managed to bite him, resulting in Osbourne being vaccinated against rabies. On 20 January 2019, Osbourne commemorated the 37th anniversary of the bat incident by offering an "Ozzy Plush Bat" toy "with detachable head" for sale on his personal web-store. The site claimed the first batch of toys sold out within hours.
Ozzy's later comment about the incident was a classic British understatement.
"It weren't clever."
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Penny Dreadful is a horror drama television series created for Showtime and Sky by John Logan, who also acts as executive producer alongside Sam Mendes. The show was originally pitched to several US and UK channels, and eventually landed with Showtime, with Sky Atlantic as co-producer. It premiered at the South by Southwest film festival on March 9 and began airing on television on April 28, 2014, on Showtime on Demand. The series premiered on Showtime in the United States on May 11, 2014, and on Sky Atlantic in the United Kingdom on May 20, 2014. After the third-season finale on June 19, 2016, series creator John Logan announced that Penny Dreadful had ended as the main story had reached its conclusion.
The title refers to the penny dreadfuls, a type of 19th-century British fiction publication with lurid and sensational subject matter. The series draws upon many public domain characters from 19th-century Victorian Gothic fiction, including Dorian Gray from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray; Mina Harker, Abraham Van Helsing, John Seward, Renfield, and Count Dracula from Bram Stoker's Dracula; Victor Frankenstein and his monster from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; and Henry Jekyll from Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, showing their origin stories as an explorer searches for his daughter. Justine from Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue by the Marquis de Sade also appears.
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Rory Michael Kinnear (born 17 February 1978) is an English actor. He won two Olivier Awards, both at the National Theatre, in 2008 for his portrayal of Sir Fopling Flutter in The Man of Mode, and for playing the William Shakespeare villain Iago in Othello in 2014.
He played Bill Tanner in four James Bond films: Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015), and No Time to Die (2021); and in various video games of the franchise. Kinnear also played Dave Fishwick in Bank of Dave (2023) and Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger (2025). His other film roles include Broken (2012), for which he won a British Independent Film Award, The Imitation Game (2014), Men (2022), and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024).
Television roles include Michael Callow in the debut episode of the anthology Black Mirror, "The National Anthem" (2011), Michael Baker in the sitcom Count Arthur Strong (2013–2017), Lord Lucan in the two-part thriller Lucan (2013), the Creature in the horror drama Penny Dreadful (2014–2016), Stephen in the dystopian mini-series Years and Years (2019), and Tom Bombadil in the Amazon Prime Video series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2024).
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Sir Simon Russell Beale CBE (born 12 January 1961) is an English actor. He has been described by The Independent as "the greatest stage actor of his generation".[1] He has received various accolades, including two BAFTA Awards, three Olivier Awards, and a Tony Award. For his services to drama, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2019.
Beale started his acting career at the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre. He has received ten Laurence Olivier Award nominations, winning three awards for his performances in Volpone (1996), Candide (2000), and Uncle Vanya (2003). For his work on the Broadway stage he has received a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination for his performance as George in the Tom Stoppard play Jumpers in 2004. For his role as Henry Lehman in The Lehman Trilogy, he won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and was nominated for an Olivier Award.
Beale made his film debut in Sally Potter's period drama Orlando (1992). He gained prominence for his roles in Persuasion (1995), Hamlet (1996), My Week with Marilyn (2011), The Deep Blue Sea (2011), Mary Queen of Scots (2018), Benediction (2021), and The Outfit (2022). In 2017, he portrayed Lavrentiy Beria in Armando Iannucci's The Death of Stalin, for which he received the British Independent Film Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Beale has also appeared in the television projects The Young Visiters (2003), Dunkirk (2004), and Vanity Fair (2018). He earned two British Academy Television Awards: one for Best Actor for A Dance to the Music of Time (1998), and the other for Best Supporting Actor for Henry IV, Part I and Part II (2012). From 2014 to 2016, he was part of the main cast of Showtime's Penny Dreadful, and since 2024 in House of the Dragon.
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My Name is a 2021 South Korean action crime thriller television series directed by Kim Jin-min and starring Han So-hee, Park Hee-soon, and Ahn Bo-hyun. The series revolves around a woman who joins a gang to avenge her father's death and then becomes the gang's mole inside the police force. Three episodes out of eight were screened at 26th Busan International Film Festival in newly created 'On Screen' section, on October 7, 2021. It was released on Netflix on October 15, 2021.
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Park Hee-soon (Korean: 박희순; born February 13, 1970) is a South Korean actor. He graduated with a Theater degree from Seoul Institute of the Arts, and was a member of the Mokwha Repertory Company from 1990 to 2001. He became active in film beginning in 2002, and won several Best Supporting Actor awards for his portrayal of a tough cop in Seven Days (2007). He received further acting recognitions for his roles in the films The Scam (2009) and 1987: When the Day Comes (2017). Apart from his film career, Park starred in television series All About My Romance (2013), The Missing (2015), Beautiful World (2019), and My Name (2021), the lattermost of which brought him international attention.
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Denys Cowan is an American comics artist, television producer, media executive and one of the co-founders of Milestone Media.
Cowan's first published comics work was a three-page story in Weird War Tales #93 (Nov. 1980) for DC Comics. He was one of the contributors to the DC Challenge limited series in 1986. Cowan gained prominence as the primary artist on The Question, a comic book series written by Dennis O'Neil and published by DC beginning in February 1987. His other comics credits include the Batman story arc "Blind Justice" in Detective Comics #598–600 (March–May 1989) with writer Sam Hamm, which introduced the character Henri Ducard. Cowan was the penciller on the latter half of the 1990 Deathlok miniseries, published by Marvel Comics, which was written by Dwayne McDuffie and Gregory Wright as well as on the subsequent regular title of the same name.
Cowan and writer Dwayne McDuffie collaborated on a Prince comic book in 1991. Cowan co-founded Milestone Media in 1993 with McDuffie, Michael Davis, and Derek Dingle, and later worked as a producer on Static Shock, an animated series based on Milestone character Static.
As senior vice president of animation at BET, Cowan was responsible for the creation, development and production of animated programming for the entire network. This included the development and production of the premiere season of The Boondocks.
Serving as senior vice President of Motown Animation and Filmworks, he created and developed a number of shows with Fox, ABC, Disney, and Nickelodeon.
Cowan drew the cover art of the GZA/Genius of the Wu-Tang Clan's album Liquid Swords.
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Dame Joanna Lamond Lumley (born 1 May 1946) is an Indian-born British actress, presenter, author, television producer, activist and former model. She has won two BAFTA TV Awards for her role as Patsy Stone in the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous (1992–2012) and was nominated for the 2011 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the Broadway revival of La Bête. In 2013, she received the Special Recognition Award at the National Television Awards and in 2017 she was honoured with the BAFTA Fellowship award.
Lumley's other television credits include The New Avengers (1976–1977), Sapphire & Steel (1979–1982), Sensitive Skin (2005–2007), Jam & Jerusalem (2006–2008) and Finding Alice (2021–present). She also as played Elaine Perkins in Coronation Street in 1973. Her film appearances include On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Trail of the Pink Panther (1982), Curse of the Pink Panther (1983), Shirley Valentine (1989), James and the Giant Peach (1996), Ella Enchanted (2004), Corpse Bride (2005), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) and Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016). She had roles in two episodes of Are You Being Served? (1973–1975) written by Jeremy Lloyd, whom she had married and divorced three years prior to her first appearance on the show.
Lumley is an advocate and human rights activist for Survival International and the Gurkha Justice Campaign. She supports charities and animal welfare groups, such as Compassion in World Farming and Vegetarians' International Voice for Animals. Lumley was made a Dame (DBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to drama, entertainment and charity.
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Copycat is a 1995 American psychological thriller film directed by Jon Amiel and starring Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter, and Dermot Mulroney. The score was composed by Christopher Young. The film follows a criminal psychologist and a homicide detective who must work together to find a serial killer who is committing copycat crimes modeled after notorious murderers.
Principal photography began on October 3, 1994 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The film was theatrically released by Warner Bros. on October 27, 1995. It was a moderate box office success and received positive reviews for the performances of its leads, writing, and direction. It proved very successful in the video rental market, becoming the 11th most-rented film in the United States for 1996.
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Edgar Parin d'Aulaire (1898-1986) was a notable artist and children's book author, born in Munich, Germany. The son of Italian and American artists, he spent his early life in Switzerland before pursuing art studies in Munich, France, and Italy, where he was influenced by renowned artist Henri Matisse. In 1925, he married Norwegian artist Ingri Mortenson, and the couple later emigrated to the United States, where they became naturalized citizens in 1939. They initially faced challenges in their new life but found success after publishing their first children's book, *The Magic Rug*, in 1931, which marked the beginning of a prolific collaborative career.
The d'Aulaires created a diverse array of children's literature, often incorporating Scandinavian folklore and American history, with works like *East of the Sun and West of the Moon* and a celebrated biography of Abraham Lincoln that earned them the prestigious Caldecott Medal. In total, they produced around two dozen books, recognized for their charming illustrations and storytelling. Their contributions played a significant role in establishing illustrated children's books as a respected art form. Edgar Parin d'Aulaire passed away in Georgetown, Connecticut, in 1986, leaving behind a rich legacy in children's literature.
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D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths is a classic children's book by Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire, first published in 1962. It retells Greek myths in a way that is accessible and engaging for young readers, featuring beautiful illustrations by the authors. The book covers a wide range of stories about gods, goddesses, heroes, and monsters from Greek mythology
binturongs are south east asian "bear cats" . They smell like buttered movie theater popcorn.